Word: spit
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...available on that freshman seminar list. Take advantage of them while you can—the rest of your tenure at Harvard could easily include many large lecture classes where the professor doesn’t know your name. You will have to take tests for which you simply spit back learned material instead of being forced to think on your own, discuss with your peers or do original research...
...becomes a more dangerous prospect. But white-collar boxing is fairly innocent: you're not going to get badly hurt because the other guy's probably as incompetent as you." Equally important, the level of Rocky fantasy fulfillment is high: the ceremonial weigh-ins. The bucket to spit in. The theme song when you enter the ring. The nicknames. (Where else could a middle-aged white guy be called "Baby-Faced Assassin"?) The sport has become ubiquitous enough that it's reached the agony-aunt columns. In June a woman wrote in to the Daily Star newspaper's "Just Jane...
According to the prosecution, Trombly and Davis went to console their friend, now openly weeping. Byrne alleged that a visibly drunk Trombly had then spit on his uniform—a charge which the student said was entirely fabricated...
After a series of altercations with Byrne near Boston College in the fall of 2001, Trombly—then a junior economics concentrator—was arrested for a number of charges including assault and battery on a police officer. Byrne said again yesterday that Trombly spit on his uniform and swatted at his hand when he came to break up a noisy party on Commonwealth Avenue for the second night...
According to the defense, Trombly also spit on Byrne’s uniform—an act which they say led to his arrest minutes later on charges of assault and battery on a police officer as well as resisting arrest and public consumption of alcohol...